Acetylation of wood imparts moisture durability, decay resistance, and dimensional stability to wood; however, making durable adhesive bonds with acetylated wood can be more difficult than with unmodified wood. The usual explanation is that the acetylated surface has fewer hydroxyl groups, resulting in a harder-to-wet surface and in fewer hydrogen bonds between wood and adhesive. This concept w...

Building structures made from fir wood are often attacked by wood-destroying insects for which the terpenes it contains serve as attractants. One of the possibilities for extending the lifetime of structures is to use older wood with a lower content of terpenes and/or thermally modified wood. The study evaluated the levels of terpenes in naturally aged fir wood (108, 146, 279, 287 and 390 years...

in this study, the effect of nano-silver (ag) treatment on the drying rate and final moisture gradient of poplar wood was investigated. poplar (populous nigra) boards with green dimensions of 100×70×50 and 20 mm were treated with nano-silver (ag) suspension by spraying and immersion method. two concentrations of nano-silver suspension, including 20 and 100 ppm were used. then, the boards were c...

Size-reduced samples of southern yellow pine dimensional lumber, each treated with one of five different waterborne chemical preservatives, were leached using 18-h batch leaching tests. The wood preservatives included chromated copper arsenate (CCA), alkaline copper quaternary, copper boron azole, copper citrate, and copper dimethyldithiocarbamate. An unpreserved wood sample was tested as well....

He was treated surgically and the mass was noted to be a piece of wood that had been there for 40 years. This case demonstrates a very late presentation of foreign body reaction to wood in the neck. Although the patient had an initial workup and exploratory surgery, the small wood chip was obviously missed. Furthermore, the CT scan did not show any characteristic findings that suggested the pre...

Creosote has a long history of successful use as a wood preservative, but polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in this preservative have raised environmental concerns, particularly when creosote-treated wood is used in aquatic environments. A number of models have been developed to predict the risk of creosote use in aquatic environments, but one limitation of these models is a lack of data on the ...

In this work, the influence of three types of styrene maleic anhydride (SMA) oligomers on the adhesion of polystyrene wood plastic composites (WPC) was investigated. The composites were processed on a twin-screw co-rotating extruder below 200°C using 20 wt% of wood flour. The styrene maleic anhydride with different content of maleic anhydride groups, 30%, 25% and 20% (w/w) and levels of 1, 2 an...

In order to explore the optimal decolorization technology of paulownia wood suitable for middle and small Enterprises to obtain its high added values, the chemical processing method was used to solve the difficult problem of paulownia wood decolorization. The results showed that: 1) temperature, pressure, time and treatment solution concentration all had significant effects on the decolorizatio...

Last decades, wood was promoted as building material. Wood heat treatment by mild pyrolysis has been reported to improve biological durability and dimensional stability of the material and constitutes an attractive « non biocidal » alternative to classical preservation treatments. Previous studies have shown that conferred properties strongly depend on the heat treatment intensity. A quality co...